ENGENDER

v. n.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To produce by the union of the sexes; to beget. [R.]

2.
v.

To cause to exist; to bring forth; to produce; to sow the seeds of; as, angry words engender strife. Engendering friendship in all parts of the common wealth. Southey.

3.
v.

To assume form; to come into existence; to be caused or produced. Thick clouds are spread, and storms engender there. Dryden.

4.
v.

To come together; to meet, as in sexual embrace. "I saw their mouths engender." Massinger.

5.
n.

One who, or that which, engenders.

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